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A globe map with Africa visible and the countries outlines, with Gabon on the west central coast in red
TUBS Location of Gabon on the globe.
International politics

Does Gabon coup hurt or aid democracy? Too soon to tell

A&S Communications

Government Professor Nicolas van de Walle comments on the coup in Gabon, saying it's too soon to tell if it will undermine or help democracy.

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Graduate students

Student Spotlight: Ningdong Wang

Cornell University Graduate School

'My work is part of a larger effort to build the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.'

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International studies

Einaudi Center welcomes new and returning program directors

Cornell Chronicle

Climate justice will be a priority across the Einaudi Center this year.

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Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

NIH funds Cornell-led biomedical initiatives

A&S Communications

“We will study how many types of viruses, such as flu and HIV, among others, attack cells and what factors can help or hinder this,” said PI Jack Freed.

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Astronomy

‘Thermometer’ molecule confirmed on exoplanet WASP-31b

A&S Communications

Researchers have discovered a molecule that could determine the temperature and other characteristics in exoplanets.

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Milestone Pictures Actress Anna May Wong
Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema’s season showcases cult classics, Disney, greatest films of all time

A&S Communications

The cinema's fall schedule includes "Rocky Horror Picture Show," as well as some of the British Film Institute’s top movies of all time.

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YY TEOH/Unsplash A young scientist
Physics

Why does Physicist Barbie want to wear pants?

Inside Higher Ed

If “femininity” and “physicist” cannot coexist even in Barbieland, how are we ever to support their coexistence in the real world?

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Chris Kitchen Through archival research and interviews, Modica is gathering information from childcare workers.
Klarman Fellows

Work and love: Klarman Fellow studies childcare as a 20th century labor issue

A&S Communications

Justine Modica is examining the history of care that families and childcare workers have configured in recent decades.

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Mathematics

Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

Cornell Chronicle

Philippe Sosoe, mathematics, is among those at Cornell who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.

Julie Schumacher
Alumni

Award-winning author mines humor from academic absurdity

Cornellians

Julie Schumacher, MFA ’86, closes out her satirical series with "The English Experience," in which a study-abroad trip goes off the rails.

Looking down into a large scientific facility dominated by a blue ring the size of an auditorium
The muon g-2 ring sits in its detector hall amidst electronics racks, the muon beamline and other equipment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This experiment studies the precession (or wobble) of muons as they travel through the magnetic field.
Physics

Latest muon measurement doubles precision

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell team is designing some of the technology that captures the muon data.

Yellow metal array of almost-triangles on a blue-green background
Provided This metamaterial robot, which can morph into different shapes, is the type of machine Cornell researchers hope to build at the microscale using a new design paradigm inspired by the operation of proteins and hummingbird beaks.
Physics

Hummingbird beak points the way to future micro machine design

Cornell Chronicle

Building smaller and smaller machines is not simply a matter of shrinking the components.

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Provided Lesly Morocho, center, works with her class in Singapore.
Summer Experience Grants

Students head across globe thanks to Summer Experience Grant funding

A&S Communications

The grants helped 108 A&S students afford unpaid or minimally-paid summer positions.

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(Rare and Manuscript Collections) Students from Chinese diplomatic families in 1940.
Alumni

Project chronicles experiences of alums of Asian descent

Cornellians

In an ongoing effort, Cornellians are being asked to recall their student days for an oral history.

Darren Pereira in a white shirt rolled up to his elbows, smiling with a black beard and mustache, standing at chalkboard in front of diagrams.
Provided Darren Pereira
Quantum Research

Discovering the secrets of ultracold atoms in Italy

Cornell University Graduate School

The Graduate School spoke with Darren Pereira, a doctoral candidate in physics, about his summer research at the University of Florence in Florence, Italy.